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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. What function is vitamin D?






2. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






3. How many calories/gram is protein?






4. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






5. What does DASH stand for?






6. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






7. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






8. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






9. What is normal BMI?






10. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






11. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






12. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






13. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






14. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






15. The higher the BMR a client has --






16. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






17. Name six sources of grains






18. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






19. What is normal albumin levels?






20. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






21. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






22. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






23. What foods have high quality protein?






24. What is the function of vitamin C?






25. What function is vitamin A?






26. Where can you get more vitamin D?






27. What is RDA of protein?






28. What are healthy sources of fats?






29. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






30. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






31. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






32. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






33. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






34. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






35. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






36. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






37. What type of people need extra protein?






38. What is the function of vitamin E?






39. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






40. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






41. When does BMR increase?






42. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






43. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






44. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






45. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






46. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






47. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






48. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






49. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






50. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value